News
Alumna Brooke McCorkle (Ph.D. '15) co-authors book
Japan's Green Monsters: Environmental Commentary in Kaijū Cinema came out in late January! (on sale on Kindle for $3.99) Brooke has also been awarded a Visiting Scholar position at Waseda University in Tokyo where she plans to conduct research to finish the book version of her dissertation, Searching for Wagner in Japan.
Siel Agugliaro (Ph.D. candidate, Music History) awarded SAM dissertation fellowship
Siel Agugliaro has been selected as a recipient of one of the 2018 Margery Lowens Dissertation Fellowships, made available by the Society for American Music (SAM) in support of his dissertation project, “Imagining Italy, Surviving America: Opera, Italian Immigrants, and Identity in Philadelphia, 1880-1924.”
Dr. Naomi Waltham-Smith has published an article
in the inaugural issue of an exciting new journal Music & Science
Juan Castrillón's two new documentaries
presented on February 27 at 5:15KIRANIA (Long Clarinets), and PAMI KIRAMI (Long House) are two short film projects of Juan Castrillón's ongoing fieldwork.
Colloquia: Alejandro Madrid (Cornell, 2/13), Stewart Varner (Penn, 2/20)
also: Prof. Ramsey's Provost Diversity Lecture on the 22nd! (more below)Titles and abstracts at:/colloquia/about-our-colloquia-series
Anna Weesner, Robert Weiss Professor of Music and Chair, awarded Virgil Thomson Award in Vocal Music
The prestigious award is administered from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. CONGRATULATIONS!
Nina Ohman (Ph.D. Ethnomus. '17) awarded prestigious fellowship
NINA OHMAN (Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology '17) has been selected as one of the recipients of the 2018-19 Dianne Woest Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities. The Fellowship is based at the Historic New Orleans Collection (THNOC). Dr. Ohman will study the amazing holdings of Mahalia Jacksons's recorded rehearsals among other resources.
Keisuke Yamada (Ph.D. Cand., Ethnomus.) publishes peer-reviewed article
Keisuke Yamada (Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology) has just published a peer-reviewed article in the distinguished journal "Ethnomusicology Forum." The title of the article is "Shamisen skin on the verge of extinction: musical sustainability and non-scalability of cultural loss". Please see the following link: Ethnomusicology Forum.
Juan Castrillon (Ph.D. Cand., Ethnomus.) elected as SALSA Board member
Juan Castrillon has been elected Board member of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America. SALSA is a professional association for anthropologists specializing in lowland regions of South America (the Amazon, Orinoco, and Rio de la Plata river basins and adjacent areas). Congratulations, Juan!
Three talks coming up in early February:
Olivia Bloechl (T, 6th), John Harbison (W, 7th), Nicola Scaldaferri (F, 9th)For the details of the three events please see the semester calendar at:/colloquia/about-our-colloquia-series